RIP California
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ill
Superstar
About time
ExodusNirvana
Change is inevitable...
Told y'all a long time ago that Americans have a deathwish, specifically White Americans
Mike Nasty
Superstar
Why shouldn't Californian's be allowed to own an AR-15?
Corny Batman
Caped Crusader
January 6th proved that these gun nuts are not merely interested in "home defense." They are preparing a fascist takeover. They will be allowed to have these weapons. You will not.
BaltimoreTwilightMarauder
Superstar
No one should own one.
Mike Nasty
Superstar
hmmm get your daps, but I'm pretty sure I could walk out of the local gun store with an AR-15 if I wanted one.
I agree, but here we are.
This ban was on cosmetic features. It did nothing to stop crime. People out here seriously acting like being able to hold a firearm correctly, having a forward grip, a flash hider, a sliding stock, or being able to reload a second faster is going to turn people into mass murderers.
ill
Superstar
Sounds like you should get one sooner than later
Because elected lawmakers passed a law.
George W. Bush appointed judge acting activist as fukk. This ruling is bullshyt, he's basically saying that he can decide whether a law is justified or not using all sorts of rationales that have nothing to do with constitutionality.
“Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment....One is to be forgiven if one is persuaded by news media and others that the nation is awash with murderous AR-15 assault rifles. The facts, however, do not support this hyperbole, and facts matter.”
Sounds like he's recording an NRA commercial.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
how they go after this and not the stupid serial number stamping on bullet shells that got Californians stuck with only being able to buy the equivalent of the iphone 3 of handguns? it's stupid AF that you can't get current generation glocks, s&w, rugers, etc
The law is bullshyt. It does nothing to deter crime. There is no victim, so how can the state argue "compelling interest" exists?
Yeah, the roster is bullshyt, especially the fact that it's called the "safe handgun roster", yet cops are exempt. Why are LEOs allowed to operate unsafe handguns? That, and the "three off for one on" rule that is nothing more than a backdoor handgun ban.
Someone will undoubtedly sue the state when they get implicated for a crime they didn't commit because someone dropped their range brass at the scene of a shooting.
Saying "there is no victim" is obviously false. most of the deadliest mass shootings in recent history have been committed with semi-automatic rifles and a large number (Vegas, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Sutherland Springs, San Bernardino, Aurora, Pittsburgh synagogue, Geneva County) were AR-15s or derivatives thereof. The fact that mass shootings have been committed with these weapons, and that they are obviously more easily effective for mass killing than most other weapons, is already sufficient criteria. Past that it's just a question of degree and where you draw the line, and it's the public/lawmakers who have the right to decide that, not judges.
By your logic, that judge should also invalidate the restrictions on damn near every other type of weapon, from chemical agents to ballistic knives, from fully automatic firearms to brass knuckles, from surface-to-air missiles to sawed-off shotguns. We already have restrictions on hundreds of weapons across America. AF-15's aren't any different because they have some special constitutional protection, they're only different because they have a specific gun culture and political lobby supporting them.
And to be clear, I don't think banning assault rifles is a very important step in making our communities safer, it's basically a distraction that is just a flashpoint in culture wars. But the ability of judges to invalidate damn near any kind of gun control restriction based on feelings rather than law is bullshyt and stems directly from a political desire to protect a certain kind of culture that is hurting our country.